My wife will be all over this. Can't believe I'm saying this, but her iPhone5 is already becoming dated and she can't leave the Walled Garden fast enough. There's just no premium Android phones below 4.5" on the market

4.3" is mini now? That's bigger than an iPhone screen (not to mention innumerable older phones). What qualifies as "standard"?

It's called the HTC One Mini, not the iPhone Mini. Presumably "standard" would be the HTC One.

So by that logic, Sony could release an Xperia Z mini with a 6" screen and you would consider that label legitimate?

To me, if phone calls itself "mini", that should indicate that it is "mini" as compared to phones in general. I used the iPhone as an example of a phone in common use because I don't know the average screen size in general.

4.3" is mini now? That's bigger than an iPhone screen (not to mention innumerable older phones). What qualifies as "standard"?

It's called the HTC One Mini, not the iPhone Mini. Presumably "standard" would be the HTC One.

So by that logic, Sony could release an Xperia Z mini with a 6" screen and you would consider that label legitimate?

To me, if phone calls itself "mini", that should indicate that it is "mini" as compared to phones in general. I used the iPhone as an example of a phone in common use because I don't know the average screen size in general.

Considering most phones are going to the 5" screen realm, 4.3" is mini. Also, the HTC One has a 4.7" screen, so that would make this One mini.

4.3" is mini now? That's bigger than an iPhone screen (not to mention innumerable older phones). What qualifies as "standard"?

It's called the HTC One Mini, not the iPhone Mini. Presumably "standard" would be the HTC One.

So by that logic, Sony could release an Xperia Z mini with a 6" screen and you would consider that label legitimate?

To me, if phone calls itself "mini", that should indicate that it is "mini" as compared to phones in general. I used the iPhone as an example of a phone in common use because I don't know the average screen size in general.

Yes. It isn't just called "The Mini." The name clearly shows it is a mini version of the HTC One, just as in your example it would be a mini version of the Xperia Z. Kind of like the iPad Mini was a smaller version of the iPad.What would you suggest, the "HTC One Slightly Smaller than the HTC One, but don't be Confused, it is still larger than certain people might expect?"

"Regardless, it looks like the major OEM manufacturers for Android handsets are sticking with the idea that a "mini me" is good for consumers—giving them the smaller screen that they might otherwise miss with the influx of larger phones coming to market."

It's getting a bit out of hand, too, isn't it? I have a 4.7" Nexus 4 and apparently the next iteration will have a 5.2" screen. The Galaxy series also just gets bigger and bigger screens as if keeping the same screen size would devastatingly disappoint customers. Haven't we passed the max size for a comfortably handled smartphone already?

"Regardless, it looks like the major OEM manufacturers for Android handsets are sticking with the idea that a "mini me" is good for consumers—giving them the smaller screen that they might otherwise miss with the influx of larger phones coming to market."

It's getting a bit out of hand, too, isn't it? I have a 4.7" Nexus 4 and apparently the next iteration will have a 5.2" screen. The Galaxy series also just getting bigger and bigger screens as if keeping the same screen size will only disappoint customers. Haven't we passed the max size for a comfortably handled smartphone already?

It's funny, I didn't think so until an unexpected turn of events forced me to go back to using my HTC Incredible for a couple weeks recently. I had not realized how large newer phones were until I started using that again. More surprisingly, it still worked quite well and had pretty good battery life after sitting in a drawer unused for over a year...

4.3" is mini now? That's bigger than an iPhone screen (not to mention innumerable older phones). What qualifies as "standard"?

It's called the HTC One Mini, not the iPhone Mini. Presumably "standard" would be the HTC One.

So by that logic, Sony could release an Xperia Z mini with a 6" screen and you would consider that label legitimate?

To me, if phone calls itself "mini", that should indicate that it is "mini" as compared to phones in general. I used the iPhone as an example of a phone in common use because I don't know the average screen size in general.

Yes. It isn't just called "The Mini." The name clearly shows it is a mini version of the HTC One, just as in your example it would be a mini version of the Xperia Z. Kind of like the iPad Mini was a smaller version of the iPad.What would you suggest, the "HTC One Slightly Smaller than the HTC One, but don't be Confused, it is still larger than certain people might expect?"

I concede that the HTC One-Half might not be be a winner from a marketing standpoint.

It's funny, I didn't think so until an unexpected turn of events forced me to go back to using my HTC Incredible for a couple weeks recently. I had not realized how large newer phones were until I started using that again. More surprisingly, it still worked quite well and had pretty good battery life after sitting in a drawer unused for over a year...

I've been holding on to HTC's previous 720p 4.3" phone, the now nearly 2-year-old Rezound. The One Mini might be the phone I've been waiting for. I just hope the CPU isn't inexplicably gimped like Samsung's smaller phones. The Android world is really lacking in top-of-the-line phones that can be used in one hand, and I hope this is just step 1 in OEMs recognizing this gaping hole in the market and coming in to fill it.

I so hope HTC gets this one right, i'm waiting for a good, normally sized Android phone for ages. Screen looks great, lets hope the camera is atleast on par with its bigger brother, then this will be my next.

To me, if phone calls itself "mini", that should indicate that it is "mini" as compared to phones in general. I used the iPhone as an example of a phone in common use because I don't know the average screen size in general.

It's been this way forever... Mini, compared to what it is a mini of, in this case, HTC One.

Just look at floppy disks... 5.25" floppy discs were called mini floppy discs... But they weren't really "mini" when they were in abundance. However, they were mini, if you compared it to the original 8" floppy discs, which I never saw in person until much later in life... Likewise, when 3.5" discs took over, they were called micro floppy discs, but they weren't really micro unless you were aware of the precursors.

Likewise, during the 80's, the two most popular Camcorder formats were VHS-C and Hi8. VHS-C, was called "Compact"... But it was actually bigger than the Video8 and Hi8 tapes that were common. It was called "Compact", because it was Compact compared to VHS, hence the name, "VHS-C"

Likewise, when MiniDV came out it was barely smaller than Digital8 tapes... However, it was called mini, because MiniDV is actually much smaller than DV.

4.3" is mini now? That's bigger than an iPhone screen (not to mention innumerable older phones). What qualifies as "standard"?

It's called the HTC One Mini, not the iPhone Mini. Presumably "standard" would be the HTC One.

So by that logic, Sony could release an Xperia Z mini with a 6" screen and you would consider that label legitimate?

Not really, since the Xperia Z is a 5" phone. The Xperia Z Ultra is the 6.4" Galaxy Note competitor.

Product naming doesn't have to follow some strict laws of logic that apply evenly across all markets. If that was true, Apple should be tarred and feathered, the iPad mini is a mini iPad, the mac mini is small compared to computers.

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To me, if phone calls itself "mini", that should indicate that it is "mini" as compared to phones in general. I used the iPhone as an example of a phone in common use because I don't know the average screen size in general.

That seems pretty contradictory, you don't know what the average screen size is but you expect the term to relate directly to that?

It just seemed blatantly obvious to me what the naming meant. As it should to near anyone, I don't think HTC is going out of their way to confuse or mislead anyone with this.